BVA Opinion conducted an online poll for
20 Minutes, a French newspaper in France, Spain, Germany, the
UK, and Italy, and found that while Sarkozy was the most
well-known of European politicians, he was also the least-liked.

Of the 4,217 people surveyed, 93 percent knew who Sarkozy was,
more than the 92 percent who had heard of German Chancellor
Angela
Merkel. On the flip side, while 58 percent of respondents
viewed Sarko negatively (only 33 percent had a good opinion),
Merkel got the thumbs-up from 50 percent of those polled (while
41 percent gave her the thumbs down).

“Sarkozy is the only head of state to be unpopular in each of the
questioned countries,” BVA said in an e-mail to
Bloomberg. Merkel was the most popular.

UK Prime Minister David
Cameron was known to 88 percent of those questioned (and had
a 44 percent approval rating), followed by the newcomers: Italy’s
Mario Monti (74 percent with 36 percent approval) and Spain’s
Mariano Rajoy (63 percent with 27 percent approval).